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ng to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.

State of being fashionable.

Unfashionable. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [R.] Southey.

The fashionable world; people of fashion and gayety. Prior.

Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.

The height of the fashion; fashionable society.

carpet; to spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets. Carpeted temples in fashionable squares. E. Everett.

om shame or dismay. "It puts the learned in countenance, and gives them a place among the fashionable part of mankind." Addison. -- Out of countenance, not bold or assured; confounded; abashed. "Their best friends were out of countenance, because they found that the imputations . . . were well grounded." Clarendon. -…

Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy. [Colloq.]

A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. [Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. Smollett.

A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations. [Recent] The social dude who affects English dress and English drawl. The American.

A compact or condensed representation of anything. An epitome of English fashionable life. Carlyle. A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden.

Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.

In a fashionable manner.

Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. [Obs.] Farquhar.

coquette; a pert girl. Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world. Addison.

A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood. Shak.

ng, or entertainment; a landlord. Chaucer. "Fair host and Earl." Tennyson. Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak.

A fashionable cane. [Obs.] Tatler.